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Doug Green is an award winning garden author who has been in the nursery industry most of his life.

He owned and ran his own greenhouse/nursery business in Athens, Ontario named Simple Gifts Farm (hence the old website name of simplegiftsfarm.com) for 23 years. This was 20,000 square feet of retail greenhouses plus associated nursery growing space. Growing 1800 varieties of perennial flowers and 600 varieties of unusual annuals, Doug enjoyed his time growing.

He shut down the nursery in 1998 to write full time. He has 7 print gardening books published including:

*Landscape Magic – how to renovate a garden.
*Tender Roses for Tough Climates – how to grow tender roses in the north
*Bulbs – how to grow bulbs
*The Everything Lawn Care Book
*Roses for Canadians for Dummies
*Gardening Wisdom – how to garden using old fashioned techniques (major award winner)
*Perennials All Season –how to have a perennial garden bloom all summer long.

His newspaper column is published in the Brockville Recorder and Times and he's the proud gardening voice on CJAI radio - Canada's smallest radio station (Community Radio like you've never heard before!) :-)

Doug does a variety of magazine articles, copywriting and press releases for different clients as well as writing articles for his 7 gardening websites and e-books for his growing electronic publishing company.

Doug currently lives on an island off the city of Kingston, Ontario, Canada out in Lake Ontario and is developing a new garden there. When not in the garden, he can found driving his 77 Spitfire on the way to sail his mahogany Folkboat in the 1000 Islands region of the St. Lawrence River.

So, in answer to the question, “Where do you live?” – USDA gardening zone 4/5 in Ontario, Canada.

copyright 2009 Douglas Green
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